"Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war."

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Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1994). “The Flanders Panel”, Harvill Press

Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte

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“To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.”

Source : Ruth Hubbard, Mary Sue Henifin, Barbara Fried (1982). “Biological woman--the convenient myth: a collection of feminist essays and a comprehensive bibliography”, Schenkman Books
“I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.”
“If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.”
“The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.”
“I find that when I am involved in the business of life, when I'm working with people, particularly with children, I feel better. A kind of strength and energy comes with that.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.”
“I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.”

Source : "Carice van Houten Talks to Cole Smithey About Making Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.
“A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty... Since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, 120 men and only 1 woman have actually been executed. The woman, from North Carolina, said she preferred to be executed... In North Carolina, a man who commits second-degree murder receives a sentence on average of 12.6 years longer than a woman who commits second-degree murder.”

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